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The GameCube was never a top tier system even for the time it was on the market. Probably the most overrated in terms of anything retro right now the last couple of years with the amount of revisionist history and fanboys' need to attack it's competitors, mostly the PS2. That does not mean it's a bad system though. But it's time to take off the rose tinted glasses.

darkknight109 posted... .

If Halo didn't interest you, there was almost no reason to buy an Xbox - even back then people noticed that all its best games were either multiplatform or wound up on PC six months to a year later. If you had a PS2 (and, given its status as the best-selling console of all time, something only the DS challenged it for, you probably did) and a PC capable of running modern games, you already had access to 90% of what the Xbox was offering and a lot more besides.

Not everyone gamed on PC though. Sometimes, I feel like it's a cop out excuse to disregard a system. That said, while I can see parts that give it a reason to be considered top tier, I do think Xbox gets a little overinflated at times because of the Joe Redifers that exist online. The ones that go on and on about the graphics (mostly that) and the audio. But yeah, I don't think anyone would miss much outside of the first party games and the very few third party exclusives.